What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During the construction of our film we had many types of different technology at our disposal. Firstly, we had the choice of using a HD (high definition) camera or a standard video camera. At first we were considering the HD camera as this would make our film look a lot more professional and better quality. However, we decided to use a standard camera because we wanted our film to have more of a eerie feeling, we also thought this would enhance the voyeurism idea. We soon came to regret filming our film on a standard video camera as it didn’t look very professional and looked very home-made. We managed to come across many technical difficulties, especially when using the video camera. One of the starting shots of our film involves a pan shot through the hallway and into the living room. Achieving a smooth shot proved to be more difficult than we had first imagined as it was very jolty and unsmooth as we walked it through the hallway, after a long process of trial and error we came up with a very effective way of panning the camera through the hallway, this involved placing the camera and tripod on a rug, and then I had to lay on the floor, pulling the rug through the hallway and into the lounge. Although this sounds like a lot of time and effort, it allowed us to create a smooth moving pan shot through to the lounge. There were other issues with technologies during the process of constructing our film and that was learning to use an iMac. We used many of the programmes on the iMac’s such as Garageband (to create our music), FinalCutExpress (to edit and digitalize our film) and PhotoShop (to edit pictures and freezeframes). The music we used to emphasize the suspense and tension throughout our film was remixed in Garageband, we selected a piano peice and then remixed that with a drum beat to help build tension to the climax of our film. we also used a programme called LiveType, this was to create our credits at the beginning of our film. There were a few small problems when making our credits such as font size and letter alignment, but we soon figured it out and realised it was quite an easy programme to use. FinalCutExpress was the main programme we used throughout the production of our film and it was this programme that we used to insert and stick together all the bits and pieces that we had created on GarageBand and LiveType. The most irritating thing about FinalCutExpress was the fact that you had to ‘render’ the clip each time you cut it. I kept forgetting to do this so i was constantly confused.